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fas.harvard.edu

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

982 ms

Page Rendered

234 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fas.harvard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

fas.harvard.edu

91 ms

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132 ms

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74 ms

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97 ms

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105 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Fas.harvard.edu, 42% (25 requests) were made to Static.hwpi.harvard.edu and 12% (7 requests) were made to W.soundcloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (267 ms) relates to the external source Style.sndcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (51%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Fas.harvard.edu main page is 3.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 53.3 kB

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 61.0 kB
  • After compression 12.8 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 53.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 704.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Fas Harvard needs image optimization as it can save up to 704.4 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 480.3 kB

  • Original 730.6 kB
  • After minification 723.0 kB
  • After compression 250.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 480.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 555.2 kB

  • Original 850.5 kB
  • After minification 843.5 kB
  • After compression 295.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Fas.harvard.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 555.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (50%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fas Harvard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

fas.harvard.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fas.harvard.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Fas.harvard.edu main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Fas Harvard. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: